• Ben
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    75 hours ago

    So what is the answer?

    Maybe push for laws - the purchase of a plastic bottle include 25 cents surcharge on the bottle.

    Then you can toss the bottle in the street, and the homeless can scavenge for bottles and make a decent wage for a day’s work - and still there’s enough left over to deal with the plastic.

    • Flying Squid
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      112 hours ago

      So what is the answer?

      Glass, and you get a deposit for returning the glass, like how it was for most of the 20th century.

      Very recyclable… and Coke clearly doesn’t have an issue since they sell their own products in glass bottles anyway. Not just imported Mexican Coca-Cola. They sell it in glass bottles as a novelty in the U.S.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 minutes ago

        Soda from a glass bottle was so much better than plastic. It’s off tasting in plastic bottles and it warms up too quick.

    • @Wav_function
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      52 hours ago

      Companies use plastic because it’s cheap.

      Tax plastic until glass and aluminum cans are a better deal.

    • DominusOfMegadeus
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      14 hours ago

      We could all get Drinkmates and then purchase the sugar syrup of our choice in glass jars.